Lot Essay
(1) Possibly a fragment of a study for Lairesse's picture The Banquet of Cleopatra in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (A. Roy, Gerard de Lairesse 1640-1711, Paris, 1992, p. 95, plate 15).
A Roman figure at a table in a classical interior: a fragment
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Attributed to Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711)
A Roman figure at a table in a classical interior: a fragment
red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark Strasburg bend
377 x 247 mm.; and four drawings by various hands; a landscape, a drawing after Polidoro, a counterproof of a design for a tomb, and a vellum cutting with flowers and putti around a miniature of the Madonna and Child (5)
A Roman figure at a table in a classical interior: a fragment
red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark Strasburg bend
377 x 247 mm.; and four drawings by various hands; a landscape, a drawing after Polidoro, a counterproof of a design for a tomb, and a vellum cutting with flowers and putti around a miniature of the Madonna and Child (5)